OChHe
By
Booth
Tarkington
Copyright, 19m
by the Bell Syndicate, Ine.
PART {11—Continued.
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“Go on,” Aunt Harrlet urged, “What
did Noble do?”
“Why, his mother said he just went
up to his room and changed his shoes
and tie—"
“I thought so,”
pered, hurriedly,
“Crazy.”
“And then,” Mr.
“he left the house,
he'd gone down to the office; but
was uneasy, and telephoned his
ther. Noble hadn't He dit
come, all afternoon, and he didn't
back to the and they
phoned around to every place he could
go, that they know of—and they
couldn't find him or hear anything
about him,” Mr, Atwater coughed,
paused.
“But what,”
whis-
Aunt F
but
anny
solemnly,
Atwater continued,
and she supposed
she
fa-
In't
£0
tele-
come,
house ;
and
Aunt Harriet cried
“what do they think's become of him?"
“Old man Dill they were all
pretty anxious,” Mr. Atwater,
“They're afraid has—disap-
peared.”
Aunt Far
Then, in
turned to look
and would have
he been able
As that perturbi
word gradually
lying
connection
ing. Ording
would have
anxiety, y
were
said
said
Noble
amed.
perfect accord,
at Herbert,
retired
iny sere
ng evening
hed the
members
Dill
irily, this
sO commann!
was the term usual
own circle—
be as nearly n
ble to consider
there was
apart; ie
pdrlative when
Julia Atwater.
ardent group
tained con
Worst,” Of
caused him
and. more
earlier vouth.
one
he wi
er, the
in such
Howey
son
seldom vi
even then
for the comedian, but 1
incredulous disd
As
warmth
no
ithe
that under
might hi
few
ive
telepl
heard
those
more than
that Herbs
~thus he
is to
pro-
the
of
to the lit
airchild, and
lained Henry had felt
that their parents would not always be
with them, and as their parents wished
them to be had resolved
to be polite
he related
exploit,
Of the
that
n. He
He
leseription
began
uhsequent
tty F
how and
they
Proceeding,
her journalistic
matter the
was
ant
hand he told
perfect and truth-—and
immediately refuted, confuted
demonstrated to be a false witness by
Aunt Fanny, Aunt Carrie, and Cousin
Virginia, who had all heard him ve-
hemently declare, no longer than
the preceding that he and his
in
absolute
ago
Sunday,
prevent Florence from ever again set
ting foot within the newspaper build
ing. In addition,
ered with definitions
so variant, all sought to phrase but the
one subject; his conduct in seeking to
drag Florence through the mire, when
she was absent and could not
herself, Poor Florence
later in the evening, he was told,
verely ; and though her cause was thus
championed against the slander it
curiosity In regard to Florence,
like a cloud upbn her reputation. There
were several important things for her
to explain; among them,
{* upon herself to see that Noble re-
ved a copy of the Oriole, and also
x" sudden departure from home and
rather odd protraction of ahsence
therefrom. It was not thought she
was In good company. Uncle Joseph
had telephoned from a suburb that
they were dining at a farmhouse and
would thence descend to the general
region of the movies,
That word of any sort had come
from Uncle Joseph was In a measure
reassuring, but the air of perturbation
and gloom was not noticeably re-
moved. The general impression might
be summed up In the words of his
sister
iu
ER —— ——
“Nobody knows what that man'll do,
when he decides to!" Aunt Carrie
sald nervously, “Letting the poor
child stay up so Iate! She ought to
be in bed this minute, even if it Is
Saturday night, Or else she ought to
be here to listen to her own bad little
trying to put his terrible re
sponsibility on her shoulders.”
One item of her description of him
self the badgered Herbert could not
bear in silence, although he had just
declared that since the truth was so
ill-respected among his persecutors he
would mouth no until
the next He passed over “bad”
but furiously stated his height in feet,
inches and fractions of
Aunt Fanny shook
mourning. “That may
gently, “But you must
can't bring
to family.”
Herbert just at her
‘¢ more profound
strained
cousin
open his more
day.
inches,
head In
Herbert,”
try to
young Mr.
her
be,
she said
realize it
Dill
Again
h
ad no indi
poor
back his
looked
He
than
ferent
that upon whic her
nm betweer
10 touch: f
be mi
of «
VAS COnce
to SSing
fainmities,
rned with
ation Noble ill to the
the p
shit
Dills
't his own
hle misfortunes—b
He
ut not
Noble and
otherwise
regarded Noble's di
yked av .
ng Mr. DIR!"
could only
tall
ing to him
“Yes,
she said, ©
impressi
like that,
cely to ped
he never harm
soul 1”
“T'm
vr,
opl ©
fire
poor
he
agreed,
1
i
I do
sure never Herbert's |
gently. “Not
won
even n |
ler he is}
¢ es
sll
r—— pp
Bq
little ; they set their
pessi-
had unanimously
in
groove
axpectation 80 romantically
ut if the truth of
could have been
as they sat thus
together at what was developing vir-
tually into his wake, with Hefbert as
participant, they would
mistic a
his whereabouts
amazement. Noble was
last place (they would have
when calmer) where anybody
world could have madly
looking for him! They would have
been right about it. No one could
ave expected to find Noble tonight
inside the old, four-square hrick house
of Mr. H. 1. Atwater, Senlor, chief of
the Atwaters and father of the dis
turbing Julia. This was an old man of
rigidly limited sympathies: and his
opinion of Noble Dill had become al-
most notorious ; here was no hosom of
refuge for a lorn Noble needing sol-
ace, nor was his house for any moment
hospitable with Julian out of it. More-
over, Mr. H, 1. Atwater, Senlor, was
not at present in the house: he had
closed and locked it yesterday, giving
the servants a week's vacation and
telling them not to return till he sent
for them; and had then gome out of
town to look over a hominy mill he
thought of buying. And yet, as the
wake went on, there was a light In the
honee, and under that light sat Noble
DAL
Returning home, after Florence had
in the very
sald,
in the
dreamed of
placed the shattering news within his
hand, Noble had changed his shoes
and his tie. He was but a mechan-
ism; he had no motive,
put on were no better than
took off ;
he
the fresh tle was no loveller
than the one he had worn
even the lucidity to be a
as evidence of grief, No: his
was, If viewed, “crazy,” as
Fanny called it. Agitation
took form; that all, Love
e of dress are closely allied;
and In happler times when Noble eame
from work Julia
in the ey ged his
clothes faint
tracery repay
those
purple one,
action
Aunt
first
80
had
this was
and would see
ening he usually chan
No doubt there
here,
is some
too Indistinet to
contemplation
When he left the house
rapidly down-town,
end of this
but as he was
he
and toward
he
approachin
no one
wnlked
the
one-mile journey ran;
then
rallway station, him
He was
entered the
and
ten
leket
eccentric,
went
a hench sat upward
tn
and went ton t
for a
“What
ad?” the
south
the time
TAs
He
great
True
foo nection
no
was
at the sta earest
expression of his cond
to horrow
felling
is neces
mbol ;
of shock
dispersis vhile a per
increased
swallow nothing
he
was
ception
He
at
grow-
ry
wae
slowly
beginning
intervals, and the intervals were
ing shorter
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
But Devices for Showing the Direction
of the Wind Have Been in
Use for Centuries.
The the weather vane Is
unknown the most ancient of
which there Is any that
mentioned by Vitruvius,
the Tower of the Winds, of which
he speaks, still stands in Athens, This
bullding was erected about a century
before the Christian era. He writes:
“Those who have pald most atten
tion to the winds make them eight In
number, and particularly Andronicus
Cyrrhestes, who built at Athens an
octagonal tower of marble and cut on
each face the figure of the several
winds, each looking to the quarter
from which that wind blows,
“On the tower he placed a marble
column, on which was a Triton of
bronze holding a rod in his right hand,
And he contrived it that the figure
moved round with the wind so that
it constantly stood opposite it, and the
rod, which was above the figure,
showed In what direction the wind
blew.”
Effigles of many creatures have gone
duty as vanes, Man himself has not
escaped. The female form divine even
has not been spared this indignity.
Such a sentiment as Is expressed In
the sentence, “Woman fickle as the
wind,” may have been In the mind
of Theodosius the Great when he
erected at Constantinople, in the
Fourth century, the vane called the
“Lady of the Winds.”
origin of
One of
record is
Don’t think that target practice will
enable you te shoot folly as it fies,
HE Christmas
shops
carolling * of
1 becomes a spring song,
almost overnight. In the inter-
vad between Christmas and New Year's,
windows are filled with summery
clothes and fabrics, and the housewife
makes her annual excursion in the pur-
sult of stuffs frocks and
Aprons and house
hold cotton
course,
for house
children's clothes
which
gannot take
thoughts
pl is summer
House
tractingly
long since
“linens.” of
She
are
winter seri-
14
house,
ously, with tralling
the
aprons
to
spring; in
ant dis-
this season,
from
frocks
pretty
turned
are
having
unal-
of thelr own,
utility
black sateen for aprons that slip over
warmer dresses, and they are in pres.
ent demand. Unbleached cotton with
applique of plain
to the stock of utility aprons. For
aprons trimmed with grey
borders and pockets are a pleasure
to thelr wearers and everyone else,
make them comfortable,
Thrice welcome are the newly ar.
blouses. mont -
in
at
rived
ly cheerful
least, and the
refined In style.
attributes that
spring
They
color,
are
10 say
sume time
Above all
are dist
they
they
inctly
ure
have
novel,
These
combing
new style-features Incinde the
materials
placed on
tion of two different
in one
the
row
louse, an emphasis
t euff (a more or less nar-
band) the ingenious em-
decorative slashes, espec-
fnlly in sleeves. Many-colored
broideries, of various kinds, put a re-
in the gners that
desl;
is inexhaustible,
For
peasan
wrist
ployment of
em
source hands of
fancy blouses the materials used
Housefrock,
in Gay Colors,
under arm sleeve. This blouse is made
of crepe satin and has an unusual pat-
tern In embroidery adorning the front
and sleeves and defining the neck line,
The blouse at the right is one
many tiebacks., It i= made of black
crepe de chine and lace, the lace, ar
ranged in panels at the back and
front, is caught in at the waist line In
front but falls free at the back.
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